RE: new driver for drivers/virt/?

[Sell, Timothy C]

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> From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2016 6:25 PM
> To: Thomas Gleixner
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> Maintainer; Jes Sorensen
> Subject: Re: new driver for drivers/virt/?
> 
> On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 12:11:46AM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Wed, 18 May 2016, Sell, Timothy C wrote:
> > > We have a bus driver currently in drivers/staging/unisys/visorbus/ that
> > > we are trying to get out of staging and into the kernel proper.  Since
> > > "visorbus" is a driver to host a virtual bus presented to a Linux guest
> > > in a hypervisor environment (refer to
> > > drivers/staging/unisys/Documentation/overview.txt for more details),
> > > Greg KH and Jes Sorensen have suggested the possibility that
> drivers/virt/
> > > might be a good place for visorbus.  But right now, we see that the only
> > > driver under drivers/virt/ is the Freescale hypervisor environment,
> which
> > > made us wonder whether this was really the correct place.
> > >
> > > Would you have any guidance for us?
> > > Our intent is to push our visorbus out of staging immediately following
> > > the current merge window.
> >
> > What's the problem with Gregs and Jes suggestion? I don't see any.
> 
> Neither do I, odd that they wanted a third opinion :(

Sorry; I didn't intend to belittle your opinions.  Since we want to
push code to drivers/virt/, I figured it would be prudent to get
permission from those folks reported by:

	./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/virt/

first.  That was the intent of my original email, and why I chose
the distribution list I did.

I've never done this before, so I spend quite a lot of time groping
around blindly...   ;-(

Tim Sell

> 
> > There is bigger fish to fry than the final place of this driver. I had just a
> > peek at the staging code and there is enough stuff which wants to be
> cleaned
> > up before moving anywhere. I don't have time to do a proper review now,
> but
> > here are a few hints upfront:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> I don't think anyone has given a good review of the code yet, I know
> it's been a long time for me.  It's on my todo list, but that's not
> going to happen until way after 4.7-rc1 is out.  Thanks for this initial
> list.
> 
> greg k-h